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Pro-choice and pro-life are terms of self-identification used by the two sides of the abortion debate: those who support access to abortion, and those who seek to restrict it, respectively. They are generally considered loaded language , since they frame the corresponding position in terms of inherently positive qualities (and thus position ...
The abortion debate is a longstanding and contentious discourse that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. [1] In English-speaking countries, the debate has two major sides, commonly referred to as the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" movements.
In a 2009 Gallup Poll, a majority of U.S. adults (51%) called themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion—for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995—while 42% identified themselves as "pro-choice", [80] although pro-choice groups noted that acceptance of the "pro-life" label did not in all cases indicate opposition ...
Trump, though, maintained support for leaving the question to individual states, and his positioning became the banner disagreement between Trump and groups like SBA Pro-Life and Students for Life.
The story has been largely the same when it comes to the nearly 100 acts of violence and vandalism against pro-life pregnancy resource centers since the draft Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ...
Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...
Just six days after the words 'my body, my choice' echoed through the Washington Mall, a decidedly different march came to town. Pro-life then, pro-choice now: Catholic school kids reflect on ...
Walter Block, Rothbardian writer and professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans, provides an alternative to the standard choice between "pro-life" and "pro-choice" which he terms "evictionism". According to this moral theory, the act of abortion must be conceptually separated into the acts of (a) eviction of the fetus from the womb ...